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Jews and the Olympics

Cover of Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany
Nonfiction
Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany
Andrew Maraniss
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Nonfiction
Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August
Oliver Hilmes; Jefferson Chase, trans.
Cover of The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games
Nonfiction
The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games
Ron Kaplan
Cover of From Brooklyn to the Olympics: The Hall of Fame Career of Auburn University Track Coach Mel Rosen
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From Brooklyn to the Olympics: The Hall of Fame Career of Auburn University Track Coach Mel Rosen
Craig Darch
Cover of Max Baer and the Star of David
Fiction
Max Baer and the Star of David
Jay Neugeboren
Cover of The Berlin Boxing Club
Children's
The Berlin Boxing Club
Robert Sharenow
Cover of Judaism's Encounter with American Sports
Nonfiction
Judaism's Encounter with American Sports
Jeffrey S. Gurock
Cover of Emancipation Through Muscles: Jews and Sports in Europe
Nonfiction
Emancipation Through Muscles: Jews and Sports in Europe
Michael Brenner; Gideon Reuveni, eds.
Cover of Abel Kiviat, National Champion: Twentieth-Century Track and Field and the Melting Pot
Nonfiction
Abel Kiviat, National Champion: Twentieth-Century Track and Field and the Melting Pot
Alan S. Katchen
Cover of Massacre in Munich: How Terrorists Changed the Olympics and the World
Children's
Massacre in Munich: How Terrorists Changed the Olympics and the World
Don Nardo
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Jewish Sports Legends
Joseph Siegman
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Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything
Aly Raisman
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Nonfiction
Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame
Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy, eds.
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Nonfiction
Time-out: Sports Stories as a Game Plan for Spiritual Success
Dov Moshe Lipman
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